"Strong" & "Weak" Songs

You didn't really believe all those empty promises I made about trying to cut back on – and yes, even stop – doing "Opposites" music posts, did you? If so, you should have known better. Or else you weren't paying good attention. I'm obsessed! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sanctus Real  ~  "Strong Enough To Save"

2)  Skunk Anansie  ~  "Weak"

3)  Saxon  ~  "Strong Arm Of The Law"

4)  SWV  ~  "Weak"

5)  Travis Tritt  ~  "Strong Enough To Be Your Man"

6)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "I Get Weak"

7)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  "I'm Gonna Be Strong"

8)  Melanie C.  ~  "Weak"

9)  Kutless  ~  "Strong Tower"

10)  Cock Robin  ~  "When Your Heart Is Weak"

11)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  "Strong"

12)  Konshens  ~  "Weak"

13)  Will Hoge  ~  "Strong"

14)  Britny Fox  ~  "Save The Weak"

15)  Rick Astley  ~  "It Would Take A Strong, Strong Man"

16)  Serena Ryder  ~  "Weak In The Knees"

17)  Apocalyptica ft. Doub Robb  ~  "Not Strong Enough"

18)  Aaron Leatherdale  ~  "The Weak Ones"

19)  Matthew Sweet  ~  "Strong Enough"

20)  So Kind Stacy  ~  "Too Weak"

Songs By Los Angeles-Born Artists

Okay, so I heard this Beck song on the radio the other week, and I wanted to post the music video of it, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into a music post. (I'd already included a song by Beck in my "Mononymous Male Singers" post a few weeks back.) So I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out he was born in Los Angeles, and quickly decided that there was my angle. I would do a post of songs by artists born in the city of Los Angeles. It's a lame idea, I'll admit, but it did the trick. So here you have it, a song by Beck and 14 other people who were born in Los Angeles.  Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  "Where It's At"  (He's got two turntables and a microphone...)

2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"  (Actually, it isn't...but that doesn't mean the song's not good)

3)  Natalie Cole  ~  "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"  (I like her dad [Nat "King" Cole] a lot – I didn't know Natalie came out with this song)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAjcCW_jWQ

4)  David Crosby  ~  "Delta"  (Who needs Stills, Nash, or Young?)

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5)  Zooey Deschanel  ~  "Don't Look Back"  (Technically, the song is by She & Him, but the "She" is Zooey)

6)  Leif Garrett  ~  "When I Think Of You"  (Apparently, this fella was quite the heartthrob in his day...whatever)

7)  Josh Groban  ~  "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"  (Is there any song this guy can't sing well?)

8)  Etta James  ~  "Something's Got A Hold On Me"  (She was a sassy somebody in her youth...and in her old age, actually)

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9)  Katharine McPhee  ~  "Say Goodbye"  (It's so hard to say goodbye, though...)

10)  Liza Minnelli  ~  "New York, New York"  (A native Angeleno singing a song about New York...makes perfect sense)

11)  Keb' Mo' ft. Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne  ~  "Just Like You"  (One of the most important songs I've heard in quite a while)

12)  Randy Newman  ~  "You've Got A Friend In Me"  (Anyone who's ever seen Toy Story once – or a thousand times – will recognize Newman's distinctive singing voice...and this song, too)

13)  Elliott Yamin  ~  "Wait For You"  (Good song – I'd sort of forgotten about this one, but I like it)

14)  Gwyneth Paltrow  ~  "Country Strong"  (Country strong, but Los Angeles-bred)

15)  Emily Osment  ~  "You Are The Only One"  (Pretty generic teen-pop-crap by the sister of that creepy kid from The Sixth Sense movie)